mismate
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Phyllie, don't mismate; those that do regret it.
From Tobogganing on Parnassus by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams
Of the 1975 comedy-drama "Lucky Lady," for example, he wrote that it was a "cynical, vulgar, contrived, mismated, violent, uneven and uninteresting disaster."
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2014
One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were mismated."
From Time Magazine Archive
There the miracle occurred: Minne and Antoine found they were not so mismated after all.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes she gets kidded by Announcer Dick Willard and Husband Bill Sauter, a quiet, wisecracking ex-actor who contributes a felicitous conjugal note that draws plaintive queries from mismated listeners.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his first analysis of what that letter might mean to him he had decided that his man would be recognizable by his mismated eyes.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
The similar drug diethylstilbestrol, which Yale researchers are finding equally effective, has been used by veterinarians for years to treat mismating in animals.
From Time Magazine Archive
In order to explain what perfect marriage is, Swedenborg works by the process of elimination and reveals every possible condition of mismating.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
Their marriage had been a mistake, that was all,—a mismating, as many marriages were.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
The unhappiness resultant upon the mismating of a man and woman, utterly divergent in everything that is essential to make their union a happy one, is depicted in a forceful, clear, and well-sustained manner.
From A Trooper Galahad by Charles King
Social condemnation should stigmatize the wrong of mismating, not the undoing of such a wrong.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
